Gone through a few books for the first time recently:
A Canticle for Leibowitz - Walter M. Miller
A really enjoyable read in spite of the subject matter but one that is very obviously three separate books entwined together after the fact.
Having never heard of the Wandering Jew myth I was wondering what was up with the guy who was at least 1200 years old by the end. I assumed there was meant to be a link to the theory that before the apocalypse scientists had found a way to create a new form of life, and that this meant robots, but this probably isn’t the actual intention.Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
Being 200 years removed from when it was written, the melodrama makes this unintentionally kind of funny in places. The build up of
Frankenstein being horrified at seeing the creature in the mountains to the creature’s first words being basically “ah I was expecting this reaction” made me laugh out loud.Great book though.
The Mist - Stephen King
The first Stephen King I’ve ever read! It’s alright! It’s interesting just how closely the 2007 film kept to the plot
aside from the ending, which I actually prefer in the book. Better to have a little bit of hope with a story like this than something as cruel as the film’s ending.Apparently King thought up the story when waiting in line at the supermarket while on holiday. I do wonder whether Mrs King might have read this and asked who else might have been in line.
I have this as part of the Skeleton Crew collection, which I’m making my way through.